On January 4th, 2017, the State of Virginia ruled that Title Company Home Warranties are no longer able to be provided to buyers at closing in return for business. If you don’t know this practice it goes like this: In many areas of the country, including the Northern Virginia, Washington DC, and Maryland areas, [...]
Do you have a WordPress website or thinking of getting one? In my travels in the Title Insurance industry and working directly with Realtors on their websites, I have seen the pitfalls Realtors go through learning how to use them. The $99 a month site, the real estate company websites (template), the site that [...]
Are you looking to implement a successful video marketing strategy in 2017? Perhaps you are just getting started using video in your real estate business? Either way, I have you covered in this blog. I’m sure by now you have (if you are a Realtor/Lender/Title) been asked to write or give your quarterly and yearly [...]
Ever hear the saying–“If you don’t have an assistant, you are one?” The longer I stay in the Title Business/Real Estate I believe this is true. Delegation. This is a scary word for many, especially for people who have hard time “letting go” and trusting others with their business. In today’s real estate world, delegation [...]
As I keep teaching all kinds of real estate marketing and technology related classes throughout Northern Virginia, we are talking more and more about real estate video. In today’s world, it is a topic that really can no longer be avoided. So as Realtors are starting to face that implementing video into their business [...]
In any job, the feeling of "burnout" hits from time to time. Even those overzealous Realtors, Lenders, and Title Company professionals who rave about how much they "love their craft" have hit the wall. That feeling where fatigue hits and we need that extra motivation to keep going at a high level. I have [...]
The economy is improving. Jobs have increased and the unemployment rate has fallen to 5%. This is all great news for our country and real estate. It also means that the Federal Reserve is more inclined to raise interest rates. The “Fed” has had interest rates very low for quite some time. This has [...]
Referrals...we all love them. When someone tells another person about your services and why they should use you. It is the least expensive way to generate business in the Real Estate space. We all can agree that if we could run our entire business models on this way of generating business there would be [...]
To begin...the Title Company you currently use in the Northern Virginia/Washington DC area ( if not already Stewart Title) is probably not a bad Title Company. I'm sure that they provide decent to good service and have knowledge of their title and settlement services. More than likely they are very good at taking your [...]
I think that we can all agree that technology has come to the forefront on basically anything that we now do. This applies especially to the Real Estate space. Realtors are told that they are to have websites. They are told that they are to have effective content that answers questions to their potential [...]
